Chapter 89: The Empire State Building

Bai Shuo has also had a detailed understanding of AIG, an international multinational insurance and financial services institution group based in the United States, headquartered in the International Building in New York. The Group's headquarters in the British Empire are located in London, continental Europe is in Paris, and Asia is based on Hong Kong Island. According to Forbes magazine's list of the world's top 2000 multinational companies, AIG is ranked 18th in the world, which can be described as a true giant company.

Speaking of which, this company also has a lot to do with Huaguo, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it used to be a Huaguo enterprise. Because the history of the United States International Group can be traced back to 1919, when the founder of the group, Shi De, established an insurance agency in what is now the magic capital of China to provide fire and marine insurance protection, which was the predecessor of AIG. In just ten years, he expanded his business to all of China and Southeast Asia, and in 1926, AIG opened a branch in New York, USA. Later, due to the invasion of the Japanese state, Shi Decai moved the company's headquarters from China to the United States, and then opened up the Latin American market. After 1949, AIG completely withdrew from its insurance business in China.

For AIG, Bai Shuo has his own ideas, one is that a giant like this, the United States should not let it fall so easily, so Bai Shuo does not feel that the CDS in his hands will encounter any risks; It's not impossible to swallow this elephant. In the end, Bai Shuo made a decision not to move AIG's CDS at all and continue to wait for the opportunity. Because these CDS in hand may play a key role in the second step of the strategic plan in the near future.

However, for other short-selling products, Bai Shuo is very active, continuing to promote negotiations with major banks, and constantly harvesting leeks that have been planted on Wall Street for nearly a year. Bai Shuo's first choice was to throw out all the contracts of Lehman Brothers, because in the remaining contract details provided by Liu Shu that day, he found that there were still many contracts of Lehman Brothers, and he gasped at that time, good guy, Bai Shuo of other companies may not be familiar with it, this famous guy, that must be familiar. So Bai Shuo hurriedly took Liu Shu and Anna to Lehman Company and offered to liquidate the contract. They were greeted by a Gaul and a black fellow. The contrast between the Gauls and the Negros is humble and polite. Everyone uses English as a communication tool, but the Gaul is fluent in English, speaks extremely fast, and has a bit of a European flavor, which makes Bai Shuo sound very difficult, and he needs to repeat the questions to figure it out. Although the black guy was responsible for explaining Bai Shuo's questions again every time, the Gauls were a little impatient. When Bai Shuo repeated the question that the Gauls had said, the Gauls finally couldn't bear to smile in Gallic and said to the black guy next to him, "What a fucking bun." I didn't expect such a person to be able to walk shit luck. ”

Bai Shuo and Liu Shu didn't understand the meaning, but Anna immediately went crazy, stepped over, picked up the shirt on the man's chest, and grabbed a big man so that his body was bent and he almost couldn't stand steadily. At this time, Anna angrily rebuked in pure Gallic language: "Who is Tu Baozi? If your mouth is not clean, be careful that I ruin you. Seeing this, the black guy quickly apologized to Anna, and Anna slowly let go.

While the Gauls were shocked, Anna explained everything to Bai Shuo again. Bai Shuo smiled slightly: "Arrogant Gauls, one day you will bow your noble head in front of me, and this day will not be too far away." Then he slammed the table and shouted, "Now you just have to give me a pretty cent of the money I deserve, now, immediately, immediately, quickly......"

The Gauls didn't expect that Anna behind Bai Shuo was also a powerful character, she could understand her Gallic language, and she knew that she was at a loss, so she didn't care too much, and when she heard Bai Shuo's roar, she had to scold and pay Bai Shuo her due income according to the contract. After Bai Shuo got the money, the three turned around and left, the black guy respectfully said goodbye to the three, but the Gaul said hatefully behind him: "Goodbye, my friend, well, no, don't say goodbye, yellow guy ......." Although the last two sentences were relatively quiet, they were still heard by Bai Shuo, and as he was leaving, Bai Shuo stretched out his right hand from behind his back and raised his middle finger at the Gauls.

After a round of harvesting, Bai Shuo couldn't help but think that just 10 months ago, he and Liang Ying were still anxious about hundreds of thousands of Chinese dollars, but now it is hundreds of millions of rice dollars in the account at the snap of his fingers, if it weren't for Liang Ying being a rich young master, he would have already experienced ups and downs, and Bai Shuo also has more than ten years of tempering in the depths of his memory, otherwise anyone's little heart would not be able to bear such a huge contrast in a short period of time.

In the blink of an eye, Bai Shuo has been in the United States for more than half a month, and after the intense busyness, his life has become idle in the past two days. Because Bai Shuo is different from Liang Ying, Liang Ying can always find something to do, and it seems that there is always something to do, but Bai Shuo is used to delegating power and letting professional people do professional things. So after completing a series of important decisions and solving the most urgent things at the moment, Bai Shuo became a little unable to do for a while, and he was not willing to disturb Wei Lun and Hans too much every day in addition to normal work exchanges. It suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't had a chance to really relax and see this legendary city after coming for so long, so these days, after Bai Shuo had a morning meeting, he took Anna to New York to wander around.

The prosperity of New York really moved Bai Shuo, even if he saw the prosperity of the later generations, Bai Shuo is not only admired by the current New York, the Statue of Liberty, Fifth Avenue, Broadway, World Trade Sites...... One by one left a deep impression, when viewing Madame Tussauds, Bai Shuo liked those wax figures very much, I heard that there is also a wax museum in the magic capital, but Bai Shuo wanted to go back and introduce one in Shudu.

When looking at the Empire State Building, Bai Shuo also liked the thick and majestic feeling of the Empire State Building, and seemed to understand some of the reasons why the Japanese people wanted to buy the Empire State Building in the 90s of the last century. I consulted with Hans and learned that the old owner of the Empire State Building had just retaken the building more than a year ago, and there were plans to spend money to upgrade the building, which was a bit regrettable. However, there were some unexpected gains, Bai Shuo stumbled upon the building's exhibition hall to hold a small economic forum two days later, and Waiters happened to be attending and speaking, which aroused Bai Shuo's interest. He immediately called Wei Lun and asked him to find out about the situation at this forum, and it would be better to get two tickets. Knowing that he is invincible, Bai Shuo can't wait to meet the opponent of Jacks face-to-face at this time.

On this day, Anna walked into the Economic Forum with Bai Shuo and the two of them, at the moment it has been arranged stylishly and solemnly, and a big screen is set up behind the podium in the middle, with the words "Global Economic Forum" in English, I have to say that this gimmick is still quite big, but I don't know if the actual weight can be worthy of such a name. In addition to the position in the front, the position in the back was not sorted, Bai Shuo and Anna casually found a seat in the center of the fourth row and sat down, Liu Shu and Wei Lun also followed closely and found a position in the back row. At this time, Bai Shuo found an acquaintance, and the black guy who was in Lehman last time was also present, and the black guy also found Bai Shuo, took the initiative to come over and say hello, and repeatedly apologized for what happened last time. Bai Shuo's impression of the black guy was not bad, and he casually exchanged a few words. The black guy just came to help the big guy deliver the documents, and he was about to return to the company, he knew very well that this was not a place where he should stay longer, so he didn't bother Bai Shuo and his party too much.

Wei Lun carefully observed the venue and found that some ZF officials, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and other bigwigs participated in the forum, and foreign Bank of England and Deutsche Bank also had heads present. Wei Lun told Bai Shuo about these situations, Bai Shuo nodded slightly, didn't say anything, just quietly watched everything in the field. There are a total of 10 rows of seats in the venue, each row of about 15 seats, and the first two rows are VIP-level positions, with seat cards, and those who can sit there are political and economic bigwigs or representatives of those giant enterprises. The middle six rows are the guests of the forum, most of whom are also people who have a place in the economic field, and they are in this area, and the back rows are obviously reserved for the media, except for the last two rows, the reporters of various media have set up cameras and cameras behind the seats, and are nervously debugging, and occasionally there will be some small episodes competing for excellent positions. There are mostly whites in the whole field, and there are a few blacks, in addition to himself, Liu Shu, and Anna, there are several other waves of yellow people, but at a glance, it is clear that they are either Japanese or Korean.

At 2:30 p.m., the forum officially began, first of all, the Minister of Finance of the United States Lao Cai delivered a speech for everyone, from the speech Bai Shuo heard that this forum is just a show made by the United States in order to stabilize the economy and boost popularity, and deceive more people to pay for the crisis. However, with the mentality of watching a play, Bai Shuo is also happy to be an audience. The next few bigwigs have taken the stage to make their own remarks, I have to say, these characters whether it is conversation, knowledge, agitation ability is first-class, in a humorous or humorous, or domineering side leakage, or theoretical advanced speech, this round of crisis seems to be blown away by them like this, it seems that everything will get better soon, the current crisis is just a false illusion. If it weren't for Bai Shuo knowing the severity of this crisis, he would almost want to bow to them. Soon, Weaves also appeared, Bai Shuo carefully observed Weavers, no matter how he looked, this was just an ordinary old man, his hair was a little thin, his figure was not tall, and his eyes were very bright. Jacks's speech was mainly a theory of crisis, and a simple summary is that there is an opportunity when there is a crisis, and a crisis is always relative. He believes that this round of crisis is nothing more than a change in the old and new economic systems, and it is important to seize the opportunities of the future in the crisis.

Bai Shuo carefully pondered what Weavers said, and it was certain that there was some truth in it, but most of the things seemed very empty or very limited. Bai Shuo pouted slightly, showing a contemptuous smile, Weiges is just like that, at best, he is just a tactical master, and his grasp of the general direction is not worth mentioning.

Every big guy will have a question time after speaking. After entering Verters' question time, Bai Shuo was the first to raise his hand. Picking up the microphone, when Bai Shuo indicated that he was from Huaguo, Wei Jie showed an unshaven expression, although it was only a momentary expression, it was still keenly grasped by Bai Shuo.

"I have two related questions, so it can only be regarded as one question, first of all, I would like to ask Mr. Willis, in this round of crisis, you swept the stock markets of various countries, so that the countries that were already trembling in the crisis talked about Wei Color, everyone knows that you have now moved to the Asia-Pacific region, so I would like to ask you what you think about the operation of the Japanese stock market in the next step?"

Everyone at the scene was stunned, how could there be such a direct, it was better to ask Jacks directly if his next target was the Wa Kingdom, and if so, what would he do? But these are very confidential things, how can they be revealed so easily.

Jacks smiled contemptuously and said humorously: "I think this Chinese kid may not know much about finance and the stock market, but in order not to delay everyone's time, I can't teach you here." ”

For a while, there were bursts of laughter in the audience.

Jacks continued: "The Japanese stock market has a deep decline some time ago, and it is still in the stage of recuperation, I think it is not the best choice, I can only say that in the short term, I have no idea of investing in the Japanese market, thank you!"

Bai Shuo smiled slightly, and then asked: "Just now, all the bigwigs mentioned some views on this crisis, and you also put forward your opinions, from the general direction, it seems that they are very optimistic about the future market. When do you think the inflection point in this crisis will be?"

Wides took the microphone, looked left and right, and said with a very exaggerated expression: "I heard me right, where is the crisis, I remember I said, all I see in my eyes is opportunity." ”

The scene erupted in warm applause again, and there were bursts of ridicule from someone, obviously aimed at Bai Shuo.

Waiters signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said heroically: "The current economic situation is generally good, the general direction will not change, the subprime mortgage debt is just to puncture some bad bubbles, reduce the current market too high leverage, at most three to four months, the economic trend will be raised again, then will usher in more brilliant glory." ”

There were bursts of applause, as if the world had entered a brilliant place in this small venue. Bai Shuo shook his head uncontrollably, slowly left the venue, and walked all the way, greeted by mocking eyes, but Bai Shuo was not annoyed, on the contrary, he was very happy, from the blind confident eyes of these people, he, like Vertess, had seen a greater opportunity. Walking out of the venue, Bai Shuo came to the window, looked at the scenery outside the building, and walked slowly along the corridor, and after a while, he took out his mobile phone and called Zhong Pengcheng. Only a very short sentence was said: "Jacks's next target, Hong Kong Island".